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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






2. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






3. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






4. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






5. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






6. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






7. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






8. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






9. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






10. The organizational form of a literary work.






11. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






12. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






13. A four line stanza in a poem.






14. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






15. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






16. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






17. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






18. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






19. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






20. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






21. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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22. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






23. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






24. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






25. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






26. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






27. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






28. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






29. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






30. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






31. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






32. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






33. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






34. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






35. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






36. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






37. The dictionary meaning of a word.






38. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






39. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






40. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






41. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






42. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






43. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






44. The person who 'tells' the story.






45. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






46. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






47. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






48. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






49. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






50. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.